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Rail companies and their shippers may find out in 2007 if the "railroad renaissance" of recent years

Short line operator Genesee & Wyoming will realign its North American operating regions on the f

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Utilities, battle-scarred by the high cost of natural gas

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.BNSF Railway hired former Surface Transportation Board ch

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.A major investment by a grain exporter will double its lo

Freight traffic on U.S. railroads rose during the week ended December 9 in comparison with the corre

Railcar fleet owner TTX promoted two officials to more senior roles, naming Thomas Wells to executiv

Canadian Pacific Railway - the second-largest freight carrier in Canada and sixth largest by revenue

BNSF Railway will reintroduce international intermodal container service from the Pacific Northwest

Norfolk Southern plans to spend $1.34 billion in 2007 for capital improvements to its railroad opera

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.A $70-billion dollar Japanese trading company is looking

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway will spend about $1.4 billion o

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The simmering tension between railroads and their custome

A Lehman Brothers analyst on Thursday lowered his fourth quarter expectations for four Class 1 railr

Rail volume contracted in the month of November, according to figures from the Association of Americ

A $70-billion dollar Japanese trading company is looking to the United States to get a handle on the

BNSF Railway hired former Surface Transportation Board chairman Roger Nober as Executive Vice Presid

Canadian National Railway will spend about $1.4 billion on track, equipment and other capital invest

Union Pacific carried 20 million tons of coal from mines in Wyoming, Colorado and Utah in November.

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The Association of American Railroads says the timeline f

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The Iowa Northern Railway received a $25.5 million loan f

A sputtering domestic intermodal market is turning into an opportunity for asset-backed companies li

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.RailAmerica''s billion dollar private equity deal last mo

The board of directors at Canadian National Railway approved a one-year contract extension for E. Hu

Rail traffic declined further in week 47, according to figures from the Association of American Rail

As rail volume growth slowed over the past month, service metrics have improved for North American r

Short line traffic dropped for the fifth straight week in week 45, hurt by large declines in ores, f

Norfolk Southern announced that Daniel M. Mazur has been appointed vice president of strategic plann

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.The Intermodal Association of North America elected Frank

Plans by the railroads to implement stiff rate increases beginning next year will reverberate throug

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Canadian National Railway opened a $4 million grain termi

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Container chassis pools are proving they can unlock valua

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.Pacer International appointed Michael Uremovich chairman

A sputtering domestic intermodal market is turning into an opportunity for asset-backed companies li

Total rail and intermodal volumes for the week ended Nov. 17 declined seven-tenths of one percent ye

Norfolk Southern named Daniel M. Mazur vice president strategic planning, effective December 1. Mazu

RailAmerican, Boca Raton, Fla.-based short line and regional rail service, carried 9 percent fewer c

Union Pacific elected Thomas "Mack" McLarty, 60, to a newly created eleventh seat on its board of di

For the third time in a year and a half, Canadian National Railway will reduce the rate it uses to c

Copyright 2006, Traffic World, Inc.A leading rail shipper group will have leadership in plac